All That Heaven Allows

When contemplating the deposition of your remains after death, there is a wealth of questions to ask and decisions to make. If you're a Christian and you're considering cremation, the question that is probably uppermost in your mind is how God feels about it and what the Bible has to say on the topic. Therefore, we will examine Scripture and other avenues, to help you determine if God is for or against cremation. History of Cremation Cremation has gone through periods of preference throughout…

this is exactly what happened to the Moslems and Christians. Christians were followers of Jesus Christ and Moslems were followers of Mohammed, who both happen to have something to do with Holy land and Jerusalem in particular. As Mohammed rose to heaven in Jerusalem and Jesus was born in Jerusalem. (Gibson, 1975). These facts are just more religious examples of things that would of lead to the start of the Crusades. As the two religions both believed two different things and these two different…

Slavery was a time where people suffered harsh beatings, working all day and night, and an era where no one wants to go back. It was a time where life was not fair for people and where half of America begged for equality. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written for a specific purpose, to demonstrate the “living dramatic reality”…

In the satire, The Wizard of the Crow, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o compels scholars to become well-educated about the use of religion under a dictatorship. Thiong’o presents a community in Aburiria who has become consumed with “Satan’s presence” and the Wizard of the Crow which signifies a distraction to focus on Satan and the sorcerer. Towards the end of the novel, the Ruler claims “Aburirians were deeply religious” (Thiong’o 750). However, Ruler is an avaricious man who misleads people and surrounds…

With any system of government, there will be flaws. Although, there are many benefits to the pluralist form of government, there, of course, exists flaws as well. The meaning of the quote, “the flaw of the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus signs with an upper class accent,” is that, the pluralist ideology is good in theory, but the influences of wealthier and higher class groups are greater than those of the middle and lower classes thus creating more inequality than plurality…

“No need to hurry, no need to be anybody but oneself. We are all going to heaven” explains that men have no care in the world. However, the second passage contains details in which would make the reader wince; “here was the soup, a plain gravy soup… transparent liquid.” The woman’s meal seemed as for an everyday, ordinary…

which the second disciplinary method is more severe than their first response when addressing repeated misbehavior (Adkison-Bradley et al, 2014). “African American mothers use more intense disciplinary practices than African American fathers (across all contextual situations and income levels). “Spanking with open hand or belt is used when child challenged parent’s authority or was disrespectful (Bradley, 1998, 2000: Adkison-Bradley et al, 2014). Hispanic American families live in close knit…

The novel A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines reflects the type of life people of color had in the South. The novel explores the unjust and discriminatory system blacks lived under by narrating the story of a young black man, Jefferson, who was unrightfully convicted and sentenced to death. Since the beginning of the novel, the system dehumanizes and emasculates male characters, and it continues to be seen throughout the novel. The most affected being Jefferson, Grant, and Reverend Ambrose…

My perspective on the existence of God and the problem of Evil breaks down to free will, therefore I believe that although God is all-knowing and all-loving, allowing humanity to process free will created a gate for Evil to rise in the form of decision making. God allowed humanity to exercise free will. This may, in a certain perspective portray God as an evil entity, but he does not command humanity to commit crimes, rape, murder, lie, cheat, or steal. A person’s own free will is the decision…

translation having its own mistakes and contradictions. Not only could some argue that the Bible has been lost in translation, but it does not help that it was also written by many different authors. There is not just one source of the Bible but many. All of these facts bring into question the reliability of the Bible. Is the Bible reliable enough to build a religion around? The Bible is not a reliable source due to the amount of time it was in circulation before it was possible for it to be…